Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Researcher

Position: Quantum Benchmarking Initiative Researcher  Beware of fraudulent job offers and postings!  Technergetics will never extend an offer of employment without a thorough interview process involving face to face interviews either in-person or a virtual Teams meeting from an official Technergetics email address (@techngs.com). If you receive any correspondence from an email other than techngs.com, it is a scam. Pre-interview code testing is only administered through the Codility  platform. We will not send out questionnaires or testing through any other platform/site prior to a first interview.  Opportunity Overview:Technergetics is seeking to hireup to five mid-level to senior-level Physicists, Mathematicians, Logisticians, Computer Scientists, Computer Engineers, Systems Engineers, and Operations Research experts. While a research background is a valuable and applicable skillset for these positions, the objective of them is evaluation, not research.These positions will work closely with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)’s cross-organizational Quantum Benchmarking Initiative (QBI) team to review, validate, and document approaches enabling revolutionary advances in design, engineering, testing, and evaluation in the domain of fault-tolerant quantum computing and exploring computational workflows that include quantum computing procedures. The primary goal of the QBI program is to determine if any emerging approaches to quantum computing can achieve industrially useful operation exponentially faster than conventional predictions. Position Details      Salary Range:  $75,000-$150,000 annually. The successful candidate’s salary will heavily depend on how many position qualifications the candidate meets, in addition to education and experience. This is a full-time exempt position.   Remote performance is expected for this position and Technergetics will consider candidates from across the United States. Regardless of location, a successful candidate can expect to travel to the Washington DC area (DARPA), and Support or Performer sites across the country 10%-40% of any given month. Daily activities include frequent VTC meetings and may also require limited/periodic nonstandard work hours to accommodate meetings with team members and Performers across multiple time zones.Responsibilities and Duties   The day-to-day activities of DARPA’s QBI team include performing tasks to identify, select, capture, evaluate, and document the metrics and approaches that DARPA’s commercial Performers are developing and applying to build fault-tolerant, utility-scale quantum computers (USQC). The QBI team is responsible for generating and executing plans to assess the timeline, performance and operation metrics, and plausibility of each Performer’s technology. Candidates will verify a Performer’s ability to build a USQC that operates as intended, and they will document, report, and justify the findings.Typical work can be divided into three categories: 1. Review and EvaluationRapidly digest large quantities of complex Performer-specific technical details, perform relevant independent evaluations, and generate standardized Government artifacts summarizing independent assessments of that materialEvaluate quantum computing architectures, devices, algorithms, and applications including utility and maturityIdentify Performer subsystems and components required to successfully design and construct the systemDiscover, develop, implement, execute, evaluate, analyze, articulate, and justify models and simulations at the component, subsystem, and system levelsAssess DARPA and Performer requirements; capture and document the level of maturity of these elementsIdentify, assess, and capture design, development, and integration riskIdentify the Performer’s interface approachFor efforts with an existing Interface Control Document (ICD), review the information and identify any shortcomings. It may be necessary to convert the Performer-provided ICD to a common framework identified/developed by the Government evaluation team.For Performer efforts that do not have an existing Interface Control Document, assist the Performer to track system interfaces through an ICD or similar document.2. Documentation and ReportingAssist non-traditional performers to complete design reviewsParticipate in system concept and readiness reviewsPerform prototype subsystem System Requirements Review (SRR) through Final Design Review (FDR) and prototype constructionAssist with diverse evaluation and documentation activitiesIdentify, implement, and apply standardized Government and systems engineering products, practices, and documentation3. Professionalism and TeamworkWork with a multidisciplinary team of researchers, physicists, scientists, engineers, and subject matter experts to identify problems and synthesize solutions which can be integrated into preexisting workflows and processesDiscover, develop, and lead novel workflows to enhance and improve